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N. D. NOBLE.

RBI}? GUIDE. No. 369,465. Patented Sept. 6, 1887.

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REiN-GUIDE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 359,465, dated September 6, 1887.

Application filed April 15,1887. Serial No.23lfll8. (No model.)

To aZZ 1071 0121 it may concern.-

Be it known that I, Nona Dwron'r NOBLE, of Carroll, in the county of Carroll and State of Iowa, have invented a new and Improved Rein-Guide for Harnesses, of which the following is a full, clear, andv exact description.

The object of my invention is to provide a cheap, durable and convenient reinguide for harness that will reduce the friction of the rein in the guide to the minimum.

The intention consists of the construction, arrangement, and combination of parts, all as hereinafter described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of my new and improved rein-guide, showing the hinged side thereof elevated in dotted lines. Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation on line a; 00 of Fig. 1; and Fi 3 is a transverse sectional elevation, on line 3 y of Fig. 1.

a a represent two curved arms connected at their curved end by a hinge-joint. At the opposite ends are formed holes'to receive the projecting ends a a of a pin passed through the roller 0 from end to end. 0 c are two bars by which the two arms a a are held in position by the thumb set-screw (1. These bars are halved at their inner ends to form the lapsections [1 11", which match each other. In the section (i is formed a slot cl, through which the thumb-screw passes, and a threaded hole is formed in the other section to receive the threaded end of the thumb-screw (l.

G represents the staple to which the hinged ends of the arms a a are attached by a pin, h, which is passed through the bars and memhers g g of the staple and riveted. The staple G is attached to the hame of the harness by a pin, 9, passing through the hame. The stapie is so attached that the rein-guide will stand endwise, and so it will readily turn on the pin 72- up or down, but not back or forth horizontally.

To insert or remove a line, or to remove the roller 6, it is only necessary to slack the thumbscrew (7., and the two arms a a will readily part at their onterends to disengage from the projecting pins of roller 0, as will be readily understood from the dotted lines in Fig. 1.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a rein-gnidc,thetwoarmsampivoted to the staple G, for connecting the rein to the harness, in combination with the roller 0, held at the free ends of the arms a a, substantially as described.

2. The arms a a, formed or provided with the bars 0 a, in combination with the roller 6, fastening device (1, and staple G, to which the arms are hinged, substantially as described.

NOAH DW IGHT NOBLE.

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